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Re: Coreutils C question

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Date Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:30:50 +0000
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On 20 Mar 2012, Benjamin S. said:
> I also think it might be for portability reasons (cross-OS stuff). I got 
> the source from an official Linux repos (Ubuntu 10.10). I wonder whether 
> they've removed all options with regards to other OS. From what I 
> understand the coreutils package was rewritten/organized so maybe it is a 
> leftover.

It's clearly a leftover, if perhaps left around because it is plausible
that some future machine might also require constant per-utility
initialization.

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